Singles dramatically different from the album version

The Kinks - Mirror Of Love and Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind

 

The video for Tom Petty & The HB's Into The Great Wide Open has a longer guitar solo in the middle

 

The Byrds - Chestnut Mare.
As a lover of that original 45 it came as a surprise when I bought a '1971 hits' cd many years later and discovered the long 'trippy' passage in the middle!

 

I think Mott the Hoople's "One of the Boys" is an interesting example. There's the long LP version that has a middle part where there is the sound of the a telephone being dialed and then the music is mixed way down to sound like it's coming from the telephone speaker and then slowly fades back in. There's a short 45 version that edits the whole middle section out. But, there is also a middle length version that was the B-side of "All The Young dudes" that takes out the telephone dialing but leaves in the part that was obscured by the fade. This part is now mixed up at the same level as the rest of the music. Not a completely different version but interesting.

 

Roadrunner by The Modern Lovers.

Think there are around 10 versions in total, but the definitive one was not on The Modern Lovers album, but released as a single, Roadrunner (Twice), in 1974.

 

in-a-gadda-da-vida

 

The big one for me is "Rock The Casbah". The single edit blows the wimpy album version right out of the water. Much better mix, that prolonged scream... yeah. One that I don't mind is "White Riot", because I hate the single version and I think the album version is much better. I still don't really like the song though.

I also don't really like the out-of-tune 12x5 version of "Time Is On My Side", even though the single version did eventually end up on an album.

 

Yeah, I dig the 'Bing Crosby' intro on the stereo LP version too, but Marriott's picked guitar arpeggios
during the verses are too "buried" for my taste. The mono LP version is probably the best compromise
as it has the acoustic intro AND the hotter guitar mix.

 

Also, the single version of Stop Your Sobbing is a completely different, earlier take (it's much slower in pace) but it's b-side, The Wait, is faster than the album version and sounds even more aggressive.

 

These are the first two that came to mind for me. However, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is essentially the same song just chopped much shorter, whereas the versions of "Revolution" sounds radically different.

 

Mono every time!

 

the single version of "one vision" has a shorter intro and outro. its about 1 minute shorter.


more queen singles. some of these had longer video mixes and extended "12 mixes


"a kind of magic" has 2 different versions. the highlander film version and the album/single version

"friends will be friends" has several different versions

"pain is so close to pleasure" has 3 different versions

"who wants to live forever" has 3 different versions

"invisible man" has 3 different versions

 

I only chanced upon this today, having known the album version for at least 30 years. I'd never even heard there was an alternate version.

This is way superior - the vocal is far more tender and sympathetic.

I had this song on a 45, with a picture sleeve, years ago, but it certainly wasn't this version - it was the standard LP version with the intro chopped.

It appears there were two issues with different mixes, 1) the flop 45 in 1971, 2) the reissued 45 which was a major chart hit in 1972.

Amazing, just when you think you've heard everything!

Was this version ever re-issued?

 

It's on The Charisma Years 1970-1973, where it's called US mix.

 

I shall grab it forthwith. Thankyou!

 

Have I missed it or can I be the first to post Get Back?

 

Roxy Music's Angel Eyes.

 

The single version of I Can See For Miles has a more prominent bass throughout the song which is different from the version on The Who Sell Out. I was hoping this version would be used in the Track Singles box set released last year but alas it was the album version. And this single's b-side in the US (Mary Anne With The Shaky Hands) is totally a different version from the album version. Also the US singles The Real Me and Love Reign O'er Me both have finished endings as opposed to the fade outs used on the album Quadrophenia. And the UK single 5.15 doesn't have the train station chatter and whistle heard at the beginning of the song on the album.

 

"Memory of A Free Festival" by Bowie

 

The Chambers Bros "Time Has Come Today" is an early example.

 

"Day Is Done" by Peter, Paul and Mary was a completely different recording on 45 compared to the LP version on Peter, Paul and Mommy. The single version is probably the more familiar because it's on the Ten Years Together best-of.

"Ain't It Funny" by Jennifer Lopez was so radically different in its "remix" single version with Ja Rule that it might as well have been a different song with the same name. The superior album version has a "La Isla Bonita" vibe to it.

The single version of Emmylou Harris' classic Christmas song "Light of the Stable" has 25 extra seconds of music compared to the common album version. Both versions are otherwise the same recording.

The single version of "I Am a Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel has a different vocal take from the album version.

The same is true of "The Way We Were" by Barbra Streisand.

The same is also true of "Goldfinger" by Shirley Bassey.

And it's true of "Help!" by the Beatles.

 

Ian McCulloch-Candleland
OMD-Messages
James-We're Going To Miss You
Lush-Nothing Natural
Lush-For Love
Lush-Superblast!
Moby-Slipping Away
New Order-Bizarre Love Triangle

 

Also worth noting: The sax on the original "Start" was David Jackson of Van der Graaf Generator, who didn't wind up appearing on any other Gabriel tracks.

 

I remember the "Nothing Natural" EP version was missing a guitar solo compared to Spooky.

I didn't notice differences on "For Love" on the EP (although there could have been some) but it had a version of "Starlust" that appeared two years later in Split in a different mix. I saw them play that live in 92.

 

One that's always stuck out for me is New Order's "The Perfect Kiss". I'm pretty sure it was the first time a single of theirs had ever appeared on an album, and the version on Low-Life is about half of the 9 minute single mix. Where not only the instrumental parts were shortened drastically, but the entire third verse was removed. Even the single mix on Substance was trimmed of around a minute towards the end.